[Husker] 12th game and 6-6

[Mike Nolan]

Here's an excerpt from the story on the Washington Post website
about the NCAA adding a 12th game:

   Adding a 12th game is fraught with other issues, as well. Chief
   among them is whether a team will need seven wins to qualify for
   a bowl game or whether a 6-6 record will suffice. To that end,
   NCAA directors agreed yesterday that seven would be preferable
   and voted to allow a victory over a I-AA team count toward
   bowl eligibility.

'Prefer' doesn't necessarily mean 'require', but it sounds like they may
have changed the Bylaws to require 7-5.  I guess we'll have to wait and
see the final wording when it hits the NCAA's online version of the
regulations.

Given the close call they had in filling all the bowl slots last year
and at least 1 more bowl game in the works, it seems to me that requiring
a 7-5 record will result in virtually all of those 12th games being
against 1-AA schools.
--
Mike Nolan